circonstance

I am still smiling as I am typing, just imagining the discrete metallic dashes of “les agrafes de circonstance” and the look on the face of the women behind the counter!

agrafer - French Word-A-Day 2010

Circumstance comes from Old French circum -, circonstance, which comes from Latin circumstantia, which meant “standing around, surrounding condition” (all this is from the OED, not me).

Annals of Strange Prescriptions: Under the circumstances « Motivated Grammar 2010

Circumstance comes from Old French circum -, circonstance, which comes from Latin circumstantia, which meant “standing around, surrounding condition” (all this is from the OED, not me).

2010 March « Motivated Grammar 2010

I am still smiling as I am typing, just imagining the discrete metallic dashes of “les agrafes de circonstance” and the look on the face of the women behind the counter!

agrafer - French Word-A-Day 2010

The circonstance was different: The tunisian plane fall down from many miles from the sky ! the hudson plane has just take off when it crash !

Pilot Who Prayed Before Crash Sentenced in Italy - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The modern quotations and the pièces de circonstance by the editors or copyists of the Compilation. 127

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Outre la beauté qui est requise dans une couleur, un circonstance essentielle est qu'elle soit solide.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

En Francais Le Cavalier Michael Yuki Hayakaze a trouvé la mort le 2 mars 2008 quand le véhicule à bord duquel il prenait place a heurté un dispositif explosif de circonstance.

Archive 2008-03-01 Military Mom 2008

“Alors donne moi tes bottes, je plaiderai la circonstance atténuante.”

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Dans cette derni鑢e circonstance ils les laissent brid閟 encore pendant une heure, comme les mules.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003